The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment
Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution prevention, total quality environmental management, industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, environmental strategy, environmental justice, and, most recently, sustainable development.

As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research.
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The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment
Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution prevention, total quality environmental management, industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, environmental strategy, environmental justice, and, most recently, sustainable development.

As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research.
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The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

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Overview

Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution prevention, total quality environmental management, industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, environmental strategy, environmental justice, and, most recently, sustainable development.

As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199677436
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/24/2013
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 718
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Pratima Bansal is Director of the Centre for Building Sustainable Value and the Executive Director for the Network for Business Sustainability. In 2008, she was awarded the Aspen's Institute title of Faculty Pioneer for Academic Leadership. She also held the title of Faculty Scholar from 2008-2010, awarded by the University of Western Ontario. Her first co-edited book with Elizabeth Howard, Business and the Natural Environment, took a disciplinary perspective. She has sat on six different editorial boards and is presently an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal. Her research has also been cited in the popular press including The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, and the Globe and Mail. She has also been awarded 13 research grants. Tima has been researching social and environmental issues since she completed her doctorate in 1996 at the University of Oxford.


Andrew J. Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, where he holds joint appointments at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment. He also serves as Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. He has written, edited, or contributed to ten books and over ninety articles and book chapters on these issues. He was awarded the 2011 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, the 2009 Aspen Environmental Fellowship, the 2009 Manos Page Prize, and the 2003 Faculty Pioneer/Rising Star Award. His book, From Heresy to Dogma, was awarded the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Andy serves on advisory boards of the SustainAbility Council, Next Era Renewable Energy Trust, and the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, as well as the editorial board of Organization & Environment.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction1. Introduction, Andrew J. Hoffman and Tima BansalPart II: Business Strategy2. Competitive Strategy, Michael V. Russo and Amy Minto3. International Business and the Environment, Petra Christmann and Glen Taylor4. Environmental Entrepreneurship, Mike Lenox and Jeffrey G. York5. The Value of Managing Stakeholders, George KassinisPart III: Policy and Non-Market Strategies6. Industry Self-Regulation, Andrew King, Andrea M. Prado and Jorge Rivera7. Environmental Governance, David P. Baron and Tom P. Lyon8. Business and Environmental Law, Cary Coglianese and Ryan AndersonPart IV: Organizational Theory and Behavior9. Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions, Lisa L. Shu and Max H. Bazerman10. Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts, Leigh Plunkett Tost and Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni11. Bringing the Environment into Organizational Culture, Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Stephanie Bertels12. Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural Environment, Michael Lounsbury, Samantha Fairclough and Min-Dong Paul Lee13. Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy, Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel14. Social Movements, Business, and the Environment, Klaus Weber and Sara B. SoderstromPart V: Operations and Technology15. Greener Supply Chain Management, Robert D. Klassen and Stephan Vachon16 Closed-Loop Supply Chains, James D. Abbey and V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr.17. Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World, Reid Lifset and Frank Boons18. Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability? Nigel P. Melville, Nigel P. MelvillePart VI: Marketing19. From Green Marketing to Marketing for Environmental Sustainability, Debra Scammon and Jenny Mish20. Why not Choose Green Consumer Decision Making for Environmentally Friendly Products, Andrew Gershoff and Julie R. Irwin21. Using Market Segmentation Approaches to Understand the Green Consumer, Timothy M. DevinneyPart VII: Accounting and Finance22. Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability? Rob Gray and Irene Herremans, Rob Gray and Irene Herremans23. Environmental Management, Measurement and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control? Nola Buhr and Rob Gray, Nola Buhr and Rob Gray24. Corporate Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets, Charles Cho, Dennis Patten and Robin Roberts25. Values-driven and Profit-seeking Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing, Rob Bauer and Jeroen Derwall26. Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street, Jean-Louis Bertrand and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne27. Corporate Decision Making, Net Present Value, and the Environment, Bryan RoutledgePart VIII: Emergent and Associated Perspectives28. Corporate Social Responsibility, Krista Bondy and Dirk Matten39. Business, Society and the Environment, James E. Post30. The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational Culture, Linda C. Forbes and John M. Jermier31. Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee32. Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory, David L. Levy and Benyamin B. LichtensteinPart IX: Future Perspectives33. Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability, John R. Ehrenfeld34. Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Distinguishing Between Weak and Strong Sustainability, Nigel Roome35. Enterprise Sustainability 2.0: Aesthetics of Sustainability, Paul Shrivastava36. Tomorrow s C-Suite Agenda, John Elkington and Charmain Love37. The Third-Generation Corporation, Stuart L. Hart38. Capitalism Critique: Systemic Limits On Business Harmony With Nature, Thomas N. Gladwin
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